I have written simple rewrite rules that rewrite .cfm extension links (using outbound rules), and resolve to the full .cfm path with an equivalent inbound rule. Example:
This outbound link:
http://mysite/section/page
Resolves to this full path:
http://mysite/section/page.cfm
When I visit a link without the file extension, in any browser, the page displays on the screen but the browser still seems to 'wait' for the page to finish loading (get that spinning circle in the browser tab, while Firefox says "transferring data from mywebsite...")
After about 5 minutes of 'waiting' for the page to load, the browser will stop trying to load and displays 'cannot display the page' error. I used Firebug's NET panel to see whats going on and basically the page never finishes loading (the size of the file remains 0kb until the browser falls over).
If I go to a fully qualified path page e.g. http://mysite/section/page.cfm
then the page loads completely within about 20ms and Firebug gives me the size of the page.
Can anyone please suggest whats going on and how to fix it?